Example sentences of "[prep] [be] like [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost constantly she longed to be like ordinary-looking girls and have a fellow , even if , like most attachments on the station , it was only a temporary affair . |
| 2 | " I do n't want to be like other women and cheat you . |
| 3 | His plight affects us like the unwilling martyrdom of a saint who wants to be like other men . |
| 4 | To be like other people : gardening at the weekend , scent of freshly-mown grass , children playing on the lawn ; wife in a cotton dress , long-legged , her smile sharing with him their private memories , future secured . |
| 5 | He had been better able to tolerate it ten years ago , but then he had drunk alcohol to be like other people and to impress , not because he liked it . |
| 6 | You ca n't expect us to be like other people . |
| 7 | But a certain failure , distressing to themselves , to be like other people , caused them to sink back , with so much else that drifted or was washed up , into the mud moorings of the great tide-way . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never worked with either my sister or my dad — I would n't want to be like certain families in this business , ’ she says , just a touch scornfully . |
| 9 | It 's going to be like fucking University Challenge sorting out some of them , through . ’ |
| 10 | It 's going to be like fucking University Challenge sorting out some of them , through . ’ |
| 11 | She also gave her a basket , to be like Red Riding Hood in the story . |
| 12 | For this theory to give the observed value of the strong force between particles , the strings had to be like rubber bands with a pull of about ten tons . |